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Decisions, decisions.
As I sat monitoring the radio and the ATCS out of Roanoke, I heard the dispatcher trying to get NS 19M out of town. I was chasing a westbound ballast train on the Whitethorne district, but they were moving kind of slow, meeting a train, and so as 19M got the permission to 'head west', I had a decision to make. I could stay with the other train for a shot that would've been nice, or head to Shawsville to meet 19M. The sunlight made my choice pretty easy, as I knew I'd have this gorgeous late evening sunlight for this train, and then I had ANOTHER choice to make: do I go for the classic fence shot, or do I put the drone up, get some elevation, and do something different. I decided to put the drone up just to see, and I wasn't disappointed, and knew this was going to be it. So here is NS 19M as seen from about 30 feet off the ground, working up grade in Shawsville, Virginia at the John Farm. Yeah, I have PLENTY of shots from here from over the years: but how do you beat this light, the mountains, the farms, and the just generally unbelievable scenery on Norfolk Southern's Christiansburg district? I'm not sure you do, at least I've not yet found a place that does.
Decisions, decisions.
As I sat monitoring the radio and the ATCS out of Roanoke, I heard the dispatcher trying to get NS 19M out of town. I was chasing a westbound ballast train on the Whitethorne district, but they were moving kind of slow, meeting a train, and so as 19M got the permission to 'head west', I had a decision to make. I could stay with the other train for a shot that would've been nice, or head to Shawsville to meet 19M. The sunlight made my choice pretty easy, as I knew I'd have this gorgeous late evening sunlight for this train, and then I had ANOTHER choice to make: do I go for the classic fence shot, or do I put the drone up, get some elevation, and do something different. I decided to put the drone up just to see, and I wasn't disappointed, and knew this was going to be it. So here is NS 19M as seen from about 30 feet off the ground, working up grade in Shawsville, Virginia at the John Farm. Yeah, I have PLENTY of shots from here from over the years: but how do you beat this light, the mountains, the farms, and the just generally unbelievable scenery on Norfolk Southern's Christiansburg district? I'm not sure you do, at least I've not yet found a place that does.